Walter Scott Quotes
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
Quotes to Explore
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.
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Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.
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If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups in Germany.
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Usually when I take my films to festivals, I feel incredibly anxious about them. I wonder how it will be received, how the audience will react. I feel deeply responsible for them.
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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
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People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.
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I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.
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The most famous Obama precept is, 'No drama.'
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Most of the people who live in Washington come from other places and you can learn something from them.
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Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.
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Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.
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Certainly we know from our own experience how very difficult it is when you've lost an election that perhaps a lot of people were expecting you to win.
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The more I find out about the dynamic and how it works, the more I realize how lucky I am to have ever got anything. Like... there was no need to put me in 'Cinderella Man' - there was no need. Why? Just get an American actor - it would've been cheaper, probably.
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I'm very appreciative and humbled by the success of 'Prison Break.'
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I read a lot when I'm away. I love courtroom dramas and I'm always looking for new authors.
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I was born with success. Lucky for me I am able to handle it. Also, I damn well deserve it!
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Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get.
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
